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PCIntern's JournalLemme get this straight about Mitt Romney:
He has five sons, none of whom saw fit to serve in the military at a time of "extreme danger" as posited by "President" Bush.
He has money in the Cayman Islands, the only reason for which is to avoid/evade the payment of taxes to the United States Government, states, or localities.
He has a familial history of living in Mexico and no one has seen the long form of his birth certificate.
He was for fill-in-the-blank before he was against it on approximately 150 topics ranging from abortion to taxation to universal health care.
He strapped his animal on the top of his car and drove.
He is ashamed of his wealth unlike anyone who has ever run for public office in my lifetime.
And, in this alternate universe, this Bizarro world, he is running for President as a REPUBLICAN, and has been deemed the man to beat by the media.
Hell has frozen over and there go the monkeys outta my butt....
My friends, what you are watching is the Decompensation of the Republican Party:
For decades, these folk attempted to rationalize and promulgate-as-truth their two most important axioms. The first of course, is that although it is difficult to make a LOT of money in these United States, the fact of the matter is that it is even more difficult to hold onto it, and thus any expenditures which resulted in the 'redistribution' of funds from the wealthy to the poor was, is, and will always be, anathema. The second is that individuals who do not possess white skin are some subdivision of a subpecies of Homo sapiens.
It has been difficult for these folk since the New Deal, the integration of the Armed Services and professional athletics, Brown vs. Board of Education, the signing of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, WIC, ADC, and the like. They have meticulously composed code-words and useful language the use of which allowed people of similar ilk to understand that they were listening to a 'fellow-traveler' as it were - the George Wallaces, the Strom Thurmonds, the Nixons, the Goldwaters, the Cheneys, even the David Dukes and George Lincoln Rockwells were studious at times in their usage.
But during this 'campaign', all stops have been pulled out and I am of the opinion that it will only get worse as we asymptotically approach Election Day 2012. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry, the anti-(fill-in-the-blank) is just beginning and this is not all directed at the President, but the Society which created the opportunity for those of us born into an America which possessed segregated bathrooms, water fountains, lunch counters, hotels, and much much more, to see the rise of the non-White, the working class and the poor. They do not utilize the academic term Caucasian, because that is not the level upon which they operate. They literally regard things and people as black and white.
And so after all these years, about eighty, the wrapping is coming off the box of hate and disgust. We have to fight this with every shred of strength and power which we possess or we shall enter a Dark Age from which this Nation may never recover. It is imperative that everyone understand how important it is to defeat this demonic force as it attempts to rise like the Phoenix from the ashes of the 2008 Election. This is a very very Thin Blue Line, and we are the vanguard force .
There is an insanity spreading throughout the Party, the fires stoked by the likes of Limbaugh and the whole of FOX News: that for them, this is the political Apocalypse and it is their Time. There is no limit to the evil, lies, and outrageousness which shall be spread like Napalm through the dense jungle of the media and Internet.
It is now time for us to Go To Work and pre-empt their scripted destructiveness of America.
BTW, Chuckie Todd didn't much like the President's performance at the Apollo...
this A.M. on MSNBC, he played the clip and then just sat there with that stupid, "So, isn't that the lamest thing you've ever seen?" look.=, shaking his head. So, Chuck: once again, when did you finish college?
I'll be released from the hospital in about two weeks...
last night I came home, was getting ready for bed, and I suggested to my wife that we should have an open marriage, because there is this really really hot woman in my practice who is after me in the worst way.
I awakened an hour later in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Emergency Room. They told me to be careful of post-concussion syndrome and that my arms and legs would function pretty well once the casts were removed. They weren't sure about the prognosis of the penile reattachment, however.
Theory Thread: What is the one sentence that Newt's ex will utter which will "sink" his candidacy?
Interesting ABC story we're told...heard this on MSNBC this AM on Morning Joseph.
"Innaresting" perspective today...
So I know this guy really well for about thirty years: he pretends he's an independent but his presentation of "both sides" of any political argument goes like this: "I can't believe that the Republicans are doing ---thisthatandtheotherthing (fill in the blank) and the Democrats just sit by and let them get away with that and that they're gonna get away with that because that's what people want to hear or won't believe the truth or whatever. When you present the opposite side he says, "Don'tcha see? It won't MATTER to anyone."
Now in fact, this is unfortunately sometimes TRUE of us, BUT when he is faced with revelatory truths even years later such as "Gore never stated that HE invented the Internet - it was a more complex statement than that and this is what he actually said...", he just laughs and says, "It doesn't matter NOW, does it?" And when you 'accuse' him and his kind of spreading these untruths (read: lies) he says, "No I didn't: I was just repeating what everyone was saying at the time. I never SAID that it was TRUE or not."
Did I mention that he has a fair amount of money?
So Yesterday, he told me that what Bain Capital did was really really wrong. I retorted: yeah, but this was what was going on in those days and everyone sat around and, if you were a Republican, said that it was the natural order of things Capitalistic and that it was all perfectly legal and it was part of the New World Order and that if you complained about these things you were some sort of Commie bastard. Further, I pointed out that with few exceptions, Wall Street being the most notable film, and Barbarians at the Gates being one of the better made-for-TV shows, these arbitrage guys were being made out to be heroes in the media, taking home millions and billions of dollars without having to produce anything. Wonderment ensued. They were "heady" times. and the Republican establishment was gung-ho, so, I continued, where do guys like Newt and his ilk get off criticizing Romney when they were part of the cheering section. They're making themselves out to be like officers of the IWW for crying out loud.
His response was, surprisingly, an angry "NO! that wasn't the way it happened." I responded: "Oh really." I reminded him of the film Other People's Money with Danny DiVito and Gregory Peck which he and I had talked about contemporaneously. I said, "It was so common to put people out of work and close plants that they made a mainstream movie about it and by the time it came out, it was a cliche."
He said to me, "We'll have to agree to disagree." i replied, "No, you try to make me believe that you identify with my particular political view because you think that that's what I want to hear, but in fact, you're just trying to justify the Republican line which has led this country into deep recession, multiple unnecessary wars, and a horrifying political divide which toe the Country asunder. And you know what? You can stop now, because I've got your number and won't engage in this again with you. Look, just SAY that you like the Republican ideology and at least I won't get stupidly angry with you as an individual, because AT THE VERY LEAST, you're thinking that you're protecting your money and your interests although I'd disagree with even that assumption."
He just frigging laughed...didn't deny it for one instant. I'm all done with him politically.
If the election were held today...
there'd be a lot of surprised people out there.
This crap about "if the election were held today" is so fallacious that it is almost unnerving. If the 1968 election were held today, Nixon would lose, since he's both discredited and dead.
If my grandmother had wheels, she'd have been a locomotive.
It is utterly and totally without merit to state that and CBS and these other shills should be shamed...they're NOT of course, but they should be.
Hey Ricky, you Dope:
No classes in America, huh...except maybe the middle class...
You moran: if there's a middle class then by definition, there's an upper AND a lower class...that makes THREE for starters...and if anyone knows any REALLY rich or landed-gentry-from-the-Mayflower-days, they CERTAINLY think that there's classes in America and the "Nouveau-riche", meaning anyone worth less than a half to two-thirds billion dollars EACH in a family of wealthy folk, is "lower-echelon" as far as they're concerned.
You're a divisive, angry, hate-filled, jealous, petty, sniveling, repressed, corrupt dimwit.
I was thinking the same thing when he said that...
as a Jew, I react poorly when someone says to me, knowing that I'm a Yid: "...so that was your come-to-Jesus moment." I want to say to them, "Actually, the two greatest carpenters of all time were Jewish: Jesus and Norm Abrams of This Old House, and right now, I don't need anything built, so I won't be calling either of them."
Two of my employees are hyper-religious Baptists, and I'm very very careful around them although their sects' dogmas prohibited them from attending my kid's Bat Mitzvah, since they're not allowed in' heathen' houses of worship which don't believe in Jesus as the Christ. But i'm the one who has to be careful, right?
I DO have a little fun around Xmas time, saying that Jesus was circumcised on New Years Day and stuff like that. Petty and childish, but WTH...
OMFG: Luke Russert is now an "expert" according to Chuckie Todd...
you know, the same Chuckie who didn't finish college who I guess is also an expert, since he tells you and me who the experts are: that makes him not only an expert but also a meta-expert.
Or as the Python group would say: Anne Elk.
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